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acb Gallery hosts Vladimír Houdek’s (b. 1984) first solo exhibition in Hungary. However, the Czech painter is not unfamiliar to Hungarian art connoisseurs, as he has previously participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the Trafó Gallery and the Ludwig Museum. For more than a decade, Houdek has been consistently building his uniquely abstract painting universe, which displays both expressive and geometric features. His geometric op-art is as sensually stimulating as his wild brushstrokes and surface deconstructions. Moreover, Houdek’s motifs blend elements of both the past and the future, though his focus is always on utopias. His multi-layered geometric cosmological symbols are inspired by late-Renaissance and Baroque maps, the abstraction of early 20th-century movements, and the brutalist architecture of the Eastern European region.
Harmonia Macrocosmica, the title of the exhibition is also an important point of reference for the artist, as Johannes Janssonius publ…
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acb Gallery hosts Vladimír Houdek’s (b. 1984) first solo exhibition in Hungary. However, the Czech painter is not unfamiliar to Hungarian art connoisseurs, as he has previously participated in group exhibitions at venues such as the Trafó Gallery and the Ludwig Museum. For more than a decade, Houdek has been consistently building his uniquely abstract painting universe, which displays both expressive and geometric features. His geometric op-art is as sensually stimulating as his wild brushstrokes and surface deconstructions. Moreover, Houdek’s motifs blend elements of both the past and the future, though his focus is always on utopias. His multi-layered geometric cosmological symbols are inspired by late-Renaissance and Baroque maps, the abstraction of early 20th-century movements, and the brutalist architecture of the Eastern European region.
Harmonia Macrocosmica, the title of the exhibition is also an important point of reference for the artist, as Johannes Janssonius publ…
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